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doc: clarify use of deps/icu-small #43287

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Expand Up @@ -11,6 +11,12 @@ functionality. To quote from icu-project.org:
> widely portable and gives applications the same results on all platforms
> and between C/C++ and Java software.
If Node.js is configured to use its built-in ICU,
it uses a strict subset of ICU which is in
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LGTM unless it's worth noting that the subset is not by locale (and type), but by type.

It's further confusing that 'small-icu' is an option still, but is !== the small-icu directory.

[deps/icu-small](https://github.com/nodejs/node/tree/HEAD/deps/icu-small).
A good description of the different ways Node.js can be built with ICU
support is in [api/intl.html](https://nodejs.org/api/intl.html).

## Data dependencies

ICU consumes and includes:
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#### Example: updating the ICU `.dat` file

* Decompress `deps/icu/source/data/in/icudt##l.dat.bz2`, where `##` is
* Decompress `deps/icu-small/source/data/in/icudt##l.dat.bz2`, where `##` is
the ICU major version number.
* Clone the icu/icu-data repository and copy the latest `tzdata` release `le`
files into the `source/data/in` directory.
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